WHy does Luta Livre get no respect?

[yodaman]

I give DEEP props for promoting an all grappling card and getting Hall for it. Thr fact that I haven't seen any cards like it recently makes me a bit sad.

Now I must go hunt down more Sotaro Yamada vids.

 

[KJGould]

For me, lutre Livre is more like Japanese BJJ

 

[ChainFlow]

Is the video for Ryan Hall's sub loss in DEEP somewhere viewable? That sounds very interesting, must have missed that event.

 

[BJJ_Rage]

Is the video for Ryan Hall's sub loss in DEEP somewhere viewable? That sounds very interesting, must have missed that event.

i might be missing something because I was not aware that he had a mma fight...

 

[Kforcer]

i might be missing something because I was not aware that he had a mma fight...

Deep does grappling events. Its called DEEP Grappling X. I don't necessarily like their rules, as they allow a bit too much stalling and butt-scooting for a professional competition IMO. But, still get some awesome match-ups and the matches themselves often turn out to be quite exciting.

 

[BJJ_Rage]

Deep does grappling events. Its called DEEP Grappling X. I don't necessarily like their rules, as they allow a bit too much stalling and butt-scooting for a professional competition IMO. But, still get some awesome match-ups and the matches themselves often turn out to be quite exciting.

damn! I imagine there must be lots of japanese catch wrestlers in that event, willl try to watch some... must be exiting...

EDIT: cant find shit on google, only aoki vs pedro akira...

 

[Kforcer]

damn! I imagine there must be lots of japanese catch wrestlers in that event, willl try to watch some... must be exiting...

EDIT: cant find shit on google, only aoki vs pedro akira...

You know, I don't really enjoy DEEP Grappling X as often as I enjoy say, Combat Wrestling, ZST GTF, the now-defunct and sorely missed Contenders or that sort of thing. The matches--though like I said, some are great--are often slower paced and they don't have prohibitions against butt-scooting or stalling or what have you.

 

[Calibur]

damn! I imagine there must be lots of japanese catch wrestlers in that event, willl try to watch some... must be exiting...

EDIT: cant find shit on google, only aoki vs pedro akira...

Not especially. A ton of gi BJJ players, a few nogi only guys, some wrestlers and that's about it. A very good circuit for up and coming professional grapplers. I competed in one but lost embarrasingly quick.

 

[MickCollins]

 

[Kforcer]

Not especially. A ton of gi BJJ players, a few nogi only guys, some wrestlers and that's about it. A very good circuit for up and coming professional grapplers. I competed in one but lost embarrasingly quick.

There are some catch guys that compete though; and especially in their tag-team events.

Daichi Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Abe(the most underrated catch guy around), Imanari, Takefumi Hanai, Katsuya Toida...Toida's competed fairly regularly in them...

I mean, they have a solid representation. Its not like ZST, Combat Wrestling or Contenders, of course, where they are all over the place.

 

[BJJ_Rage]

There are some catch guys that compete though; and especially in their tag-team events.

Daichi Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Abe(the most underrated catch guy around), Imanari, Takefumi Hanai, Katsuya Toida...Toida's competed fairly regularly in them...

I mean, they have a solid representation. Its not like ZST, Combat Wrestling or Contenders, of course, where they are all over the place.

I thought ZST was a MMA or sort of MMA league, I will start looking into those events much more... I love to see catch wrestlers grapple...

 

[Kforcer]

I thought ZST was a MMA or sort of MMA league, I will start looking into those events much more... I love to see catch wrestlers grapple...

ZST is an MMA league. Like DEEP, they also host grappling events or matches. ZST has a variety of rule-sets that they feature on their cards. RX rules, which are old-school Pancrase style rules, ZST MMA rules with no closed guard and no ground and pound to the face, ZST vale tudo rules and GT-F, the grappling match rules, in which positioning is not factored into the scoring and stalling is prohibited.

Hideo Tokoro is currently the reigning ZST GT-F champ and Imanari and Tokoro are the reigning tag-team GT-F champs.

 

[Charlitos1988]

because at least in southamerica is practiced by dickheads, like the one's that practice freestyle wrestling, the ones that just want to compete, being rude, being unpollite, the same atmosphere that one guy here talk about a week ago "my friend went to one of those gyms and after a month he didn't know the names of the other people"; mostly practiced here by the ones that can't afford bjj high costs, so sociologically they come from low social environment with less education.